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The Abipón were a nomadic people occupying the Gran Chaco region of Paraguay and Argentina. Traditionally subsistence was based on hunting, fishing, and gathering, with some very limited farming. After the acquisition of the horse from Spanish or other ethnic groups, they abandoned farming entirely for a life of raiding, and were much feared by their neighbors as well as the Spanish. By the 1770s or early 1800s the Abipón ceased to exist as a viable tribal group as the result of warfare, disease or by assimilation into surrounding ethnic populations.

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An account of the Abipones, an equestrian people of Paraguay

Ethnography of the Chaco

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Beierle, John	Culture Summary	2010
Dobrizhoffer, Martin	An account of the Abipones, an equestrian people of Paraguay	1822
Métraux, Alfred	Ethnography of the Chaco	1946